Today, the famous saying of Francis Bacon, i.e. scientia potentia est (knowledge is power; what has been frequently emphasized by famous theorists including Alvin Toffler) is felt more than any time. Everybody whether natural or legal knows that knowledge is one of the main as well as undeniable factors affecting success, productivity, effectiveness, collaboration, communication, and power in different individual, organizational, social, national, and transnational aspects of twenty-first century life. In fact, knowledge which can be truly treated as one of the most important preconditions of hegemony - not only political - is a key to achieve competitive advantage. Yet, like anything it needs to be managed and its management, or to be precise, the capacity of managing knowledge requires relevant knowledge in theory and practice.
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